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Xymon 4.3.19 Released

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list Japheth Cleaver · Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:36:56 -0700 ·
Hello,

Xymon 4.3.19 has been released to SF and should be available on a mirror
near you! It can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/


4.3.19 contains a number of bug fixes and improvements, along with a
several new features.

- a report on all recent acknowledgements is now available
- a specific time range can now be excluded for analysis or alerting
purposes with the EXTIME= directive
- additional filters are available with the "xymondboard" command,
including searching the full body text of a status report
- the last position read in a log file is now indicated on the 'msgs'
status report
- a new 'deltacount' option for counting recent matching lines in a log file
- improved Windows PowerShell client support

For a full list of changes, see the Changes file inside the tarball.


All users of 4.3.x or earlier versions of Xymon are encouraged to upgrade.


Regards,

-jc
list Galen Johnson · Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:25:20 +0000 ·
Have the contents of cgi-bin and cgi-secure-bin always been symlinks?  I don't think so...which means I had to add "FollowSymLinks" to my apache config file to allow it to work.  I would prefer not to have to set this on my cgi folders.

=G=
quoted from Japheth Cleaver
From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of J.C. Cleaver <user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:36 AM
To: Xymon Mailinglist
Cc: Xymon Development
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.19 Released

Hello,

Xymon 4.3.19 has been released to SF and should be available on a mirror
near you! It can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/


4.3.19 contains a number of bug fixes and improvements, along with a
several new features.

- a report on all recent acknowledgements is now available
- a specific time range can now be excluded for analysis or alerting
purposes with the EXTIME= directive
- additional filters are available with the "xymondboard" command,
including searching the full body text of a status report
- the last position read in a log file is now indicated on the 'msgs'
status report
- a new 'deltacount' option for counting recent matching lines in a log file
- improved Windows PowerShell client support

For a full list of changes, see the Changes file inside the tarball.


All users of 4.3.x or earlier versions of Xymon are encouraged to upgrade.


Regards,

-jc
list Bill Arlofski · Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:39:38 -0400 ·
quoted from Galen Johnson
On 03/31/2015 02:36 AM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
Hello,

Xymon 4.3.19 has been released to SF and should be available on a mirror
near you! It can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/


4.3.19 contains a number of bug fixes and improvements, along with a
several new features.

- a report on all recent acknowledgements is now available
- a specific time range can now be excluded for analysis or alerting
purposes with the EXTIME= directive
- additional filters are available with the "xymondboard" command,
including searching the full body text of a status report
- the last position read in a log file is now indicated on the 'msgs'
status report
- a new 'deltacount' option for counting recent matching lines in a log file
- improved Windows PowerShell client support

For a full list of changes, see the Changes file inside the tarball.


All users of 4.3.x or earlier versions of Xymon are encouraged to upgrade.


Regards,

-jc
Thank you J.C. for all the hard work!

Had a colleague just discover how awesome Xymon is - by installing and setting 
it up on his own network. Up until this past month he knew about it for 
_years_ (because I talk about it all the time :), but he finally installed it 
and can not stop raving about Xymon. :)

Great job, and thank you for all your contributions to Xymon!


Bill


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http://www.revpol.com/
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list Japheth Cleaver · Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:51:02 -0700 ·
This was a change in 4.3.18, with "cgiwrap" being a replacement for the
original shell script wrappers to mitigate the Shellshock vulnerability.

One option, if you didn't want to add FollowSymLinks would be to store
bin/cgiwrap directly in the cgi-bin,secure-bin directories under the
original wrapper names. To save space, they could be hardlinked to the
same binary on installation.

-jc
quoted from Galen Johnson


On Tue, March 31, 2015 1:25 pm, Galen Johnson wrote:
Have the contents of cgi-bin and cgi-secure-bin always been symlinks?  I
don't think so...which means I had to add "FollowSymLinks" to my apache
config file to allow it to work.  I would prefer not to have to set this
on my cgi folders.

=G=
From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of J.C. Cleaver
<user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:36 AM
To: Xymon Mailinglist
Cc: Xymon Development
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.19 Released

Hello,

Xymon 4.3.19 has been released to SF and should be available on a mirror
near you! It can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/


4.3.19 contains a number of bug fixes and improvements, along with a
several new features.

- a report on all recent acknowledgements is now available
- a specific time range can now be excluded for analysis or alerting
purposes with the EXTIME= directive
- additional filters are available with the "xymondboard" command,
including searching the full body text of a status report
- the last position read in a log file is now indicated on the 'msgs'
status report
- a new 'deltacount' option for counting recent matching lines in a log
file
- improved Windows PowerShell client support

For a full list of changes, see the Changes file inside the tarball.


All users of 4.3.x or earlier versions of Xymon are encouraged to upgrade.


Regards,

-jc

list Galen Johnson · Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:53:32 +0000 ·
Thanks, I'll likely just change the definition in the xymon.conf file to point to the actual physical location when I get a chance to circle back.  I'm just concerned about the security implications for allowing FollowSymLinks for my cgi areas.

=G=
quoted from Japheth Cleaver

From: J.C. Cleaver <user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 4:51 PM
To: Galen Johnson
Cc: Xymon Mailinglist; Xymon Development
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.19 Released

This was a change in 4.3.18, with "cgiwrap" being a replacement for the
original shell script wrappers to mitigate the Shellshock vulnerability.

One option, if you didn't want to add FollowSymLinks would be to store
bin/cgiwrap directly in the cgi-bin,secure-bin directories under the
original wrapper names. To save space, they could be hardlinked to the
same binary on installation.

-jc


On Tue, March 31, 2015 1:25 pm, Galen Johnson wrote:
Have the contents of cgi-bin and cgi-secure-bin always been symlinks?  I
don't think so...which means I had to add "FollowSymLinks" to my apache
config file to allow it to work.  I would prefer not to have to set this
on my cgi folders.

=G=
From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of J.C. Cleaver
<user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:36 AM
To: Xymon Mailinglist
Cc: Xymon Development
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.19 Released

Hello,

Xymon 4.3.19 has been released to SF and should be available on a mirror
near you! It can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/


4.3.19 contains a number of bug fixes and improvements, along with a
several new features.

- a report on all recent acknowledgements is now available
- a specific time range can now be excluded for analysis or alerting
purposes with the EXTIME= directive
- additional filters are available with the "xymondboard" command,
including searching the full body text of a status report
- the last position read in a log file is now indicated on the 'msgs'
status report
- a new 'deltacount' option for counting recent matching lines in a log
file
- improved Windows PowerShell client support

For a full list of changes, see the Changes file inside the tarball.


All users of 4.3.x or earlier versions of Xymon are encouraged to upgrade.


Regards,

-jc

list Tom Schmidt · Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:58:52 -0600 ·
I also noticed this change with 4.3.18.  I hard linked the cgiwrap to 
each of the cgis, as I did not want to enable FollowSymLinks on the 
Apache web server.

Tom
quoted from Galen Johnson

On 03/31/2015 02:51 PM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
This was a change in 4.3.18, with "cgiwrap" being a replacement for the
original shell script wrappers to mitigate the Shellshock vulnerability.

One option, if you didn't want to add FollowSymLinks would be to store
bin/cgiwrap directly in the cgi-bin,secure-bin directories under the
original wrapper names. To save space, they could be hardlinked to the
same binary on installation.

-jc


On Tue, March 31, 2015 1:25 pm, Galen Johnson wrote:
Have the contents of cgi-bin and cgi-secure-bin always been symlinks?  I
don't think so...which means I had to add "FollowSymLinks" to my apache
config file to allow it to work.  I would prefer not to have to set this
on my cgi folders.

=G=
From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of J.C. Cleaver
<user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:36 AM
To: Xymon Mailinglist
Cc: Xymon Development
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.19 Released

Hello,

Xymon 4.3.19 has been released to SF and should be available on a mirror
near you! It can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/


4.3.19 contains a number of bug fixes and improvements, along with a
several new features.

- a report on all recent acknowledgements is now available
- a specific time range can now be excluded for analysis or alerting
purposes with the EXTIME= directive
- additional filters are available with the "xymondboard" command,
including searching the full body text of a status report
- the last position read in a log file is now indicated on the 'msgs'
status report
- a new 'deltacount' option for counting recent matching lines in a log
file
- improved Windows PowerShell client support

For a full list of changes, see the Changes file inside the tarball.


All users of 4.3.x or earlier versions of Xymon are encouraged to upgrade.


Regards,

-jc

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list Andy Smith · Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:08:03 +0100 ·
quoted from Tom Schmidt
J.C. Cleaver wrote:
Hello,

Xymon 4.3.19 has been released to SF and should be available on a mirror
near you! It can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/


4.3.19 contains a number of bug fixes and improvements, along with a
several new features.

- a report on all recent acknowledgements is now available
- a specific time range can now be excluded for analysis or alerting
purposes with the EXTIME= directive
- additional filters are available with the "xymondboard" command,
including searching the full body text of a status report
- the last position read in a log file is now indicated on the 'msgs'
status report
- a new 'deltacount' option for counting recent matching lines in a log file
- improved Windows PowerShell client support

For a full list of changes, see the Changes file inside the tarball.


All users of 4.3.x or earlier versions of Xymon are encouraged to upgrade.


Regards,

-jc
Someone has pointed out here that columndoc.sh is not working.  It must have been like this since the cgiwrap shellshock workaround went in.  I would have had a go at a fix, but not sure where the preferred place would be, either add the QUERY_STRING into cgiwrap or deal with it directly in  csvinfo?
-- 
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list Japheth Cleaver · Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:26:54 -0700 ·
quoted from Andy Smith

On Thu, April 16, 2015 1:08 pm, Andy Smith wrote:
Someone has pointed out here that columndoc.sh is not working.  It must
have been like this since the cgiwrap shellshock workaround went in.  I
would have had a go at a fix, but not sure where the preferred place
would be, either add the QUERY_STRING into cgiwrap or deal with it
directly in  csvinfo?
--
Andy
I can confirm this is the case, and it's definitely a bug. A fix would be
preferably in the translation layer that cgiwrap is doing, I'd think, if
you'd like to submit one.


Regards,

-jc